Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.